Hey guys, I'm just here to ask: Can I install Ubuntu using Wubi and use Wine on my C drive?
Cuz it says in the Wiki FAQ to NOT "configure Wine to point to your actual Windows C:\ drive"
http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-497f1a2 ... 2c7767afa2
But I only have one hard drive and that's the C drive! If I partition using the Install CD will it create a seperate D drive for me???
Thanks in advance!
-TTT
Wubi + Wine ??????
Wubi + Wine ??????
On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 12:47 PM, motnahpraw<[email protected]> wrote:
partition in a loopback file? If so, should work fine. Performance
will suck, but it will work.
The FAQ is telling you not to mount your windows C: partition as your
wine C: drive.
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-Austin
I'm not too familiar with wubi, but doesn't it create an ext3Hey guys, I'm just here to ask: Can I install Ubuntu using Wubi and use Wine on my C drive?
Cuz it says in the Wiki FAQ to NOT "configure Wine to point to your actual Windows C:\ drive"
http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-497f1a2 ... 2c7767afa2
But I only have one hard drive and that's the C drive! If I partition using the Install CD will it create a seperate D drive for me???
partition in a loopback file? If so, should work fine. Performance
will suck, but it will work.
The FAQ is telling you not to mount your windows C: partition as your
wine C: drive.
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-Austin
Re: Wubi + Wine ??????
No, you can't (if you talking about runing programs directly from windows' c: drive without installing them on Wine). You'll have the same exact problems as on real Linux install.motnahpraw wrote:Hey guys, I'm just here to ask: Can I install Ubuntu using Wubi and use Wine on my C drive?
The problem here is, Wubi will have to access your Windows boot loader and add the option to run Ubuntu (from aforementioned loopback file). If you're a Linux user, chances are high you do NOT have Windows' bootloader by default. Things will likely fail. Use Wubi only inside Windows, else just install Ubuntu the normal way.
I don't think that's what he's asking, DaVince. I understood his request to be asking the same thing to which vitamin responded.
The short answer is: You *could* probably make it work for a lot of apps (if you install the app twice to the same path, which should be non-c: in Wine). But, don't ask for support here when something doesn't work... because it will likely introduce problems.
Also, you could blow your foot clean off. Just install the apps twice, if you need them in both OS's, until you get to a point where you can ditch Windows completely.
The short answer is: You *could* probably make it work for a lot of apps (if you install the app twice to the same path, which should be non-c: in Wine). But, don't ask for support here when something doesn't work... because it will likely introduce problems.
Also, you could blow your foot clean off. Just install the apps twice, if you need them in both OS's, until you get to a point where you can ditch Windows completely.
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Wubi + Wine ??????
On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 12:44 AM, motnahpraw<[email protected]> wrote:
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-Austin
Not really a wine question, but IIRC, a default install is ~2 or 3 gigs.A'right no longer gonna use Wubi. I already burned the ISO file into a blank DVD.
I have one hard drive on my laptop. I shall partition it using the install CD.
If I make a 10gig partition to install Ubuntu on it, how much free space will be left after the installion? Just curious. Thanks!
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-Austin
motnahpraw wrote:A'right no longer gonna use Wubi. I already burned the ISO file into a blank DVD.
I have one hard drive on my laptop. I shall partition it using the install CD.
If I make a 10gig partition to install Ubuntu on it, how much free space will be left after the installion? Just curious. Thanks!
Look a virgin install of ubuntu 9.04 takes like 4GB but installing all the apps that you need is like 6gb and the swap partition. I put ubuntu on a pendrive 8GB and run pretty fine. Freezes sometimes and get stuck but is perfect for no make a partition or use wubi. If you want to try gets Sun's VM and run it on windows.
Hope be helpful
chepe263
[sorry for my poor english]
Are you sure about this? A clean install of Xubuntu weighs in at less than 2GB, and I don't think the difference in sizes is THAT wide between Ubuntu and Xubuntu...chepe263 wrote:motnahpraw wrote:A'right no longer gonna use Wubi. I already burned the ISO file into a blank DVD.
I have one hard drive on my laptop. I shall partition it using the install CD.
If I make a 10gig partition to install Ubuntu on it, how much free space will be left after the installion? Just curious. Thanks!
Look a virgin install of ubuntu 9.04 takes like 4GB but installing all the apps that you need is like 6gb and the swap partition.
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Martin Gregorie
Wubi + Wine ??????
On Tue, 2009-08-04 at 19:48 -0500, DaVince wrote:
My Fedora 8 system (full C/Java development, Wine, Apache, DNS,
PostgresQL, Postfix mail system, Open Office). /home holds all my code
sources, text+pics for 4 websites, a moderate audiovisual collection
plus a 2GB database) has 512 MB RAM and a 40 GB disk partitioned as
follows:
$ df -m
Filesystem 1M-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda6 1938 367 1471 20% /
/dev/sda7 1938 353 1486 20% /var
/dev/sda3 14529 9766 4013 71% /home
/dev/sda2 14529 4863 8916 36% /usr
/dev/sda1 251 23 216 10% /boot/
tmpfs 251 0 251 0% /dev/shm
swap 2000
=====
15579 MB
My Fedora 10 laptop (full Java/C development, Open Office, collection of
audip and image files) has 1GFB RAM and a 160 GB disk partitioned as
follows:
$ df -m
Filesystem 1M-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda7 1970 411 1459 22% /
/dev/sda2 19686 4324 14363 24% /usr
/dev/sda8 84609 5092 75219 7% /home
/dev/sda5 1970 36 1835 2% /tmp
/dev/sda6 1970 486 1384 26% /var
/dev/sda1 494 163 305 35% /boot
tmpfs 501 2 500 1% /dev/shm
swap 2000
=====
10514 MB
The only downside found in a year's operation is that sda7 (/) and sda5
(/tmp) are too small to permit an automatic Fedora 10 -> 11 upgrade.
In general I use a lot of partitions in order to prevent any part of the
system suddenly chewing up all the disk, but IMO you can get away with
three partitions (/, swap and /home). Yes, it means a custom install but
I think its worth doing. The benefit is that you can keep everything
in /home through a complete clean reinstall if you don't reformat that
partition. After the reinstall you have to set up your private users and
groups exactly the same as they were before (i.e. the user and group IDs
*must* match those already on the contents of /home, but that's easy
enough - using "ls -l" before the users and groups have been set up
shows the uids and gids. In summary, then, for a current distro you need
to allow for the following data space:
System and programs 6 GB
Swap space 2 GB (I like twice RAM for swap space)
Personal data - at least 5 GB (as a separate partition)
IOW, if the disk is 40 GB or bigger, set the disk partition sizes up as:
System and programs 15 GB
Swap RAM * 2
Personal data everything else.
HTH
Martin
Here are some Fedora numbers for comparison:Are you sure about this? A clean install of Xubuntu weighs in at less
than 2GB, and I don't think the difference in sizes is THAT wide
between Ubuntu and Xubuntu...
My Fedora 8 system (full C/Java development, Wine, Apache, DNS,
PostgresQL, Postfix mail system, Open Office). /home holds all my code
sources, text+pics for 4 websites, a moderate audiovisual collection
plus a 2GB database) has 512 MB RAM and a 40 GB disk partitioned as
follows:
$ df -m
Filesystem 1M-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda6 1938 367 1471 20% /
/dev/sda7 1938 353 1486 20% /var
/dev/sda3 14529 9766 4013 71% /home
/dev/sda2 14529 4863 8916 36% /usr
/dev/sda1 251 23 216 10% /boot/
tmpfs 251 0 251 0% /dev/shm
swap 2000
=====
15579 MB
My Fedora 10 laptop (full Java/C development, Open Office, collection of
audip and image files) has 1GFB RAM and a 160 GB disk partitioned as
follows:
$ df -m
Filesystem 1M-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda7 1970 411 1459 22% /
/dev/sda2 19686 4324 14363 24% /usr
/dev/sda8 84609 5092 75219 7% /home
/dev/sda5 1970 36 1835 2% /tmp
/dev/sda6 1970 486 1384 26% /var
/dev/sda1 494 163 305 35% /boot
tmpfs 501 2 500 1% /dev/shm
swap 2000
=====
10514 MB
The only downside found in a year's operation is that sda7 (/) and sda5
(/tmp) are too small to permit an automatic Fedora 10 -> 11 upgrade.
In general I use a lot of partitions in order to prevent any part of the
system suddenly chewing up all the disk, but IMO you can get away with
three partitions (/, swap and /home). Yes, it means a custom install but
I think its worth doing. The benefit is that you can keep everything
in /home through a complete clean reinstall if you don't reformat that
partition. After the reinstall you have to set up your private users and
groups exactly the same as they were before (i.e. the user and group IDs
*must* match those already on the contents of /home, but that's easy
enough - using "ls -l" before the users and groups have been set up
shows the uids and gids. In summary, then, for a current distro you need
to allow for the following data space:
System and programs 6 GB
Swap space 2 GB (I like twice RAM for swap space)
Personal data - at least 5 GB (as a separate partition)
IOW, if the disk is 40 GB or bigger, set the disk partition sizes up as:
System and programs 15 GB
Swap RAM * 2
Personal data everything else.
HTH
Martin
pretty sure
I'm pretty sure. I install ubuntu from 7.04 to 9.04. I did it three times this year and that what said ubuntu itself. I saw the case for the disc they sent by mail and is what it saidDaVince wrote:Are you sure about this? A clean install of Xubuntu weighs in at less than 2GB, and I don't think the difference in sizes is THAT wide between Ubuntu and Xubuntu...
Thats what kubuntu case saysSystem Requirements
To use Kubuntu you should have a PC with at least 256 MB of RAM. To install kubuntu, you should have at least 4 GB of disk space.
This desktop edition will run on most PCs including those with Intel, AMD and compatible processors.
[sorry for my poor english]
chepe263
